Once the tape arrived I designed a simple 20x20x10mm box and tried to print it, link to the file on thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:415902.
I stupidly thought it was a good idea to try a print before I had done any calibration at all! any way it turned out as I had expected, not very good but not to bad. Here are the pictures:
As you can see there is no clear definition of the layers and the edges are very rough. Also the print has lost its shape as the corners are very rounded. This has happened because the hot end was too close to the print bed and so the extruded filament got squashed down on top of each other. This caused some of the filament to be squashed out of the supposed size of the object. In other words an extra .2 mm of filament on each side due to not enough room for layer to be laid down. Therefore for my second print I need to make sure that I have the hot end a little bit further away from the bed.
This picture shows that I had Slicer configured wrong because it printed out a hollow box but then for 3 of the top layers it tried to do a solid layer. This result in the filament sagging into the hollow box bellow. So for my second print I will set the infill to 100% or 1 if using Repetier host.
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